Security
4 posts
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AWS WAF pricing and what it costs (2026)
Ten million requests cost $6. The nineteen WAF rules inspecting them cost $19. Plus two overage meters that live in a footnote.
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Secrets Manager vs Parameter Store (2026)
AWS prices 1,500 secrets at $604.50 a month in Secrets Manager. Standard Parameter Store parameters are free. Plus a tier change you cannot undo.
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AWS KMS key pricing at scale (2026)
A rotated key costs $3 a month, not $1. And S3 Bucket Keys cut KMS request charges by up to 99% with no code change.
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GuardDuty bills flow logs you never made (2026)
GuardDuty analyses an independent duplicate stream of VPC Flow Logs, so deleting your own changes nothing. Plus the per-Region trial trap.